{"id":58853,"date":"2020-09-28T18:09:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=58853"},"modified":"2020-09-29T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T19:23:57","slug":"le-bourgeois-gentilhomme-at-the-opera-comique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=58853","title":{"rendered":"Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at the Op\u00e9ra Comique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Frank Cadenhead. 28 September 2020. Tonight\u2019s opening performance of Lully\u2019s <em>Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme<\/em> at Paris\u2019 Op\u00e9ra Comique has been cancelled. The next four nights also. The reason: one of the \u201cartistic team\u201d has Covid-19. The performances of 3 to 8 October are still planned, with the assumption that the situation would be under control by then.<\/p>\n<p>With a staging by J\u00e9r\u00f4me Deschamps and the Musiciens du Louvre conducted by Marc Minkowski, this was the last of a number of <em>com\u00e9die-ballets<\/em> by Lully and Moli\u00e8re. The theater will refund the price of tickets for cancelled performances. The financial impact of the loss of so many performances must be seriously painful to the theater and discouraging for the artists. \u201cWe are sorry for this situation and thank you in advance for your understanding\u201d says the Op\u00e9ra Comique. It is certainly something that is likely to be repeated in the coming months as many more performances return to the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>UPDATE, 29 September, 2020.  Now it is the turn of the Op\u00e9ra de Rouen. Sunday&#8217;s performance of Wagner&#8217;s Tannhauser was cancelled when a member of the artistic team was diagnosed with Covid-19.   Today, the opera&#8217;s director, Lo\u00efc Lachenal, cancelled the two final performances with the discovery that another member of the team has the virus. &#8220;We can imagine the disappointment of the spectators and we share that&#8221; he affirmed. The opera had build a special platform for the orchestra, and other work, so that distances between players could be maintained. One can only imagine the financial &#8211; and spiritual &#8211; loss to the company.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=58853\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Frank Cadenhead. 28 September 2020. Tonight\u2019s opening performance of Lully\u2019s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at Paris\u2019 Op\u00e9ra Comique has been cancelled. The next four nights also. The reason: one of the \u201cartistic team\u201d has Covid-19. The performances of 3 to 8 October are still planned, with the assumption that the situation would be under control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1637],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58853"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58865,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58853\/revisions\/58865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}